Disable McAffee Endpoint Protection OSX

disable mcafee endpoint protection.md

method 1

sudo /usr/local/McAfee/AntiMalware/VSControl stopoas

alternatively

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.mcafee.ssm.antimalware.plist OAS_Enable -bool False
sudo /usr/local/McAfee/AntiMalware/VSControl stop
sudo /usr/local/McAfee/AntiMalware/VSControl reload

Or completely uninstall:

sudo -s
cd /usr/local/McAfee/
./uninstall EPM

Thanks!!!

One more thing that can be done is to turn off the KeepAlive in the plist of all mcafee files in /Library/LaunchDaemons. Once you restart you machine then you can just kill all the processes. This is useful because you can use a script on startup to disable them and if you Corporate IT notices you just restart without running the script and the system is back to normal running this piece of 5!-!!t software.

Few more tricks. I had to run each of them twice.

To disable Firewall

sudo /usr/local/McAfee/StatefulFirewall/bin/StatefullFirewallControl stop

To disable WebProtection

sudo /usr/local/McAfee/WebProtection/bin/WPControl stop

Is there a way to turn these back on? Previously a restart would enable everything again, but no longer with OS Sonoma.